Global Health
Sickle Cell Birth Prevalence Study in Tanzania
Luke Eastburg (Class of 2020) and Andy Peckham (Class of 2019) conducted sickle cell disease birth prevalence study at a district hospital in northwest Tanzania. Both were afforded two months of dedicated time as part of the global health track. Using a new point of care test, they screened 1,000 newborns.
The results of sickle cell disease and sickle cell trait were the highest ever recorded in Tanzania and among the highest ever recorded in Sub-Saharan Africa. Their study was published in Pediatric Blood & Cancer and presented at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) National Conference. Luke and Andy were mentored by Luke Smart (University of Rochester Med-Peds Class of 2012).
Past Global Health Projects:
- Nurse Training in Shoklo Malaria Research Unit based out of Mae Sot on the Thai-Burmese Border
- Care for Patients with Tubercuolosis in the Anoor Sanitorium (Mafraq, Jordan); a Case-Study for Indigenous Peoples
- Comparing diagnostic strategies and initial management of Pediatric HIV in the U.S. and developing countries.
- Pediatric HIV in Lesotho, South Africa
- Nutrition among orphans in developing countries
- Health and Human Rights in Central America
- HIV and Cervical Cancer in South Africa
- Alternative Medicine in Southeast Asia
- Pre-Hospital Care in the developing world
- Community Development in Nicaragua
- Working with the Catholic Health Association of India across mutiple sites in Uttar Pradesh; gaining understanding of their operations, organizing healthcare and injustices being addressed
- Redesigning the Global Health Track Curriculum